A month after LaLiga starts, Ancelotti has nine defenders, nine midfielders and only three forwards
The whites have released four attackers this summer: Benzema, Asensio, Mariano and Hazard
Real Madrid returned to training last Monday and practically the entire squad already closed for the new course that is about to start. Carlo Ancelotti will continue to lead the team, but this new season, he will have a more unbalanced team than last year.
In the absence of making any more official output, such as that of Álvaro Odriozola; Real Madrid has a squad with 23 first-team players: two goalkeepers, nine defenders, nine midfielders and just three forwards. So far in the market, the whites have announced four low (Benzema, Asensio, Mariano and Hazard) and five high (Fran García, Brahim Díaz Joselu, Bellingham and Arda Güler).
That is, in the current transfer window Madrid has said goodbye to four forwards and has signed a defender, three midfielders and an attacker. It is true that in the recruitment chapter, Brahim Díaz could play the role of striker, a position in which the official website of the white club places him, but he preferably acts as an attacking midfielder.
From 4-3-3 to 4-4-2
Waiting to find out how the ‘Mbappé case’ is resolved and to see which team this new course will play for, Carlo Ancelotti only has one pure center forward: Joselu; in addition to two extremes such as Vinicius and Rodrygo. For this reason, the Italian coach has recognized that the team can change the system to adapt to this new squad: leaving behind the 4-3-3 and betting on a 4-4-2.
“It may be that this year we are going to play a different systemtaking into account what we have done, the systems that we have used in recent years and that have given us great success and that we must not forget”, he reflected in a virtual press conference on Madrid’s tour of the United States under the name Soccer Champions Tour.
“But we have to try to find a new style. We are going to try, especially on tour, which is an important moment in the preseason,” he added. The coach explained that, over the years, he has learned that “adapting to the players” is better for a coach than trying to impose a system by force. “Gamers have to be comfortable with the system they’re playing,” she said.